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Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford leads the NFL in passing yards (4,707) and passing touchdowns (46) this season. Gary A. Vasquez \/ Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Quarterbacks Matthew Stafford (Los Angeles Rams), Drake Maye (New England Patriots) and Josh Allen (Buffalo Bills) headline the list of five finalists for NFL MVP, which was released Thursday with the Associated Press\u2019 other seven accolades for the 2025 season. This season\u2019s awards will be announced at the NFL Honors ceremony on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence and San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey round out the list. Both players are also up for Comeback Player of the Year, and McCaffrey is a finalist for Offensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n
McCaffrey missed most of the 2024 season after suffering bilateral Achilles tendinitis, which sidelined him for the first eight games of the campaign. He returned for four games before a PCL injury in his right knee forced him to miss the 49ers\u2019 final five games. McCaffrey bounced back in 2025 by rushing for 1,202 yards and 10 touchdowns with the Niners.<\/p>\n
Other notable finalists include first-year head coaches Liam Coen (Jacksonville Jaguars), Ben Johnson (Chicago Bears) and Mike Vrabel (Patriots) among the Coach of the Year nominees. Each coach\u2019s squad reached the NFL playoffs, with Vrabel\u2019s Patriots playing in Sunday\u2019s AFC Championship game against the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n
The full lists of award finalists are below.<\/p>\n
MVP
\nJosh Allen, Buffalo Bills QB
\nTrevor Lawrence, Jacksonville Jaguars QB
\nDrake Maye, New England Patriots QB
\nChristian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers RB
\nMatthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams QB
\nCoach of the Year
\nLiam Coen, Jacksonville Jaguars
\nBen Johnson, Chicago Bears
\nMike Macdonald, Seattle Seahawks
\nKyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers
\nMike Vrabel, New England Patriots
\nAssistant Coach of the Year
\nVic Fangio, Philadelphia Eagles
\nBrian Flores, Minnesota Vikings
\nVance Joseph, Denver Broncos
\nKlint Kubiak, Seattle Seahawks
\nJosh McDaniels, New England Patriots
\nComeback Player of the Year
\nStefon Diggs, New England Patriots WR
\nAidan Hutchinson, Detroit Lions DE
\nTrevor Lawrence, Jacksonville Jaguars QB
\nChristian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers RB
\nDak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys QB
\nDefensive Player of the Year
\nWill Anderson Jr., Houston Texans DE
\nNik Bonitto, Denver Broncos LB
\nMyles Garrett, Cleveland Browns DE
\nAidan Hutchinson, Detroit Lions DE
\nMicah Parsons, Green Bay Packers DE
\nOffensive Player of the Year
\nDrake Maye, New England Patriots QB
\nChristian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers RB
\nPuka Nacua, Los Angeles Rams WR
\nBijan Robinson, Atlanta Falcons RB
\nJaxon Smith-Njigba, Seattle Seahawks WR
\nDefensive Rookie of the Year
\nAbdul Carter, New York Giants LB
\nNick Emmanwori, Seattle Seahawks S
\nJames Pearce Jr., Atlanta Falcons DE
\nCarson Schwesinger, Cleveland Browns LB
\nXavier Watts, Atlanta Falcons S
\nOffensive Rookie of the Year
\nJaxson Dart, New York Giants QB
\nEmeka Egbuka, Tampa Bay Buccaneers WR
\nTreVeyon Henderson, New England Patriots RB
\nTetairoa McMillan, Carolina Panthers WR
\nTyler Shough, New Orleans Saints QB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford leads the NFL in passing yards (4,707) and passing touchdowns (46) this season. Gary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1766,1748,49,48,1744,1735,1724,1721,1743,3163,1730,1737,1725,1749,1726,1718,1734,1728,514,1747,948,1739,82,1733],"class_list":["post-426340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago-bears","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-denver-broncos","tag-detroit-lions","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-houston-texans","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}